{"id":21595,"date":"2018-09-25T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=21595"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:29:41","slug":"frontloading-your-feedback-the-why-and-how-of-formative-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2018\/frontloading-your-feedback-the-why-and-how-of-formative-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontloading Your Feedback: The Why and How of Formative Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Frontloading Your Feedback: The Why and How of Formative Assessment\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Do you find yourself diligently writing feedback on end-of-term assignments only to wonder, \u201cWill my students actually read and learn from any of this?\u201d Stop wondering; start front-loading your feedback instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us at the Educational Development Centre on Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. &#8211; noon for a workshop that will explore both the \u201cwhy\u201d and \u201chow\u201d of formative assessment, a strategy that requires you to break down assignments into smaller chunks and provide feedback to your students earlier in the term. You\u2019ll also have a chance to reflect on ways you might be able to modify or enhance your own current assessment practices in light of our discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/cu_event\/frontloading-your-feedback-the-why-and-how-of-formative-assessment\/\">Register here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself diligently writing feedback on end-of-term assignments only to wonder, \u201cWill my students actually read and learn from any of this?\u201d Stop wondering; start front-loading your feedback instead. Join us at the Educational Development Centre on Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. &#8211; noon for a workshop that will explore both the \u201cwhy\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39943,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595\/revisions\/39943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}